Mr. Norimasa Shimomura

UNDP Resident Representative in Myanmar

Mr. Norimasa Shimomura started as UNDP Resident Representative in Myanmar on 23 August 2025. He has more than 25 years of experience at the United Nations, promoting sustainable human development in many countries.

Before his current assignment, he served as UNDP Resident Representative in Indonesia from 2020 to 2025.  Before that, he was UN Resident Coordinator for Kazakhstan from 2015 to 2020 and UNDP Resident Representative for Kazakhstan from 2015 to 2018. Earlier, he spearheaded development initiatives as acting UNDP Resident Representative in Montenegro, UNDP Country Director in Tajikistan and Albania, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in the Republic of North Macedonia, and acting UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Georgia.  He also served as Program Manager for the Western Balkans cluster at UNDP headquarters' Regional Bureau for Europe & CIS, and as Special Assistant to the Director of UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.

Before that, he was Economic Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, serving as delegate to the UN General Assembly Second Committee, ECOSOC and its subsidiary committees, and the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board.  He started his career as a UNDP programme officer in Turkmenistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in the City of New York, and a B.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.